I set a link to the PDF file which contains the skeleton argument informing the paper, which I hope may see the light of day in conference proceedings in due course. It was a new experience presenting via Skype; sadly I was unable to get there to present live. Meanwhile, please see below: songbird-1

Thank you Noel and Mitch/ Thank you Jim for our exposure to the crowd/ And thank you for his coattails/ Mike, you did us proud, didn’t you? (‘Have you ever bean green?’ from Soft Machine Vol. II, 1968) It was the end of the 1960s, and I came across a record review in a UK-based…

Even where life changes violently, as in ages of revolution, far more of the old is preserved in the supposed transformation of everything than anyone knows, and it combines with the new to create a new value. (Gadamer Truth and Method 1989: 281) Two threads on FB today caught my attention. I quote from a…

By popular request with thanks and a caveat. The scholars who inspired this are properly credited in the forthcoming paper of which this is a sketch outline. If not cited directly in the paper per se, these are Chris Ballantine, Phil Tagg, George Lewis, Jonathan Eato, Aryan Kaganof, Tony Whyton, Sylvia Bruinders, Stefanus Muller, Nishlyn…

Here is a preliminary list of South African (mostly jazz) musicological resources. I’ll update it as time permits, noting that there is a new edition of McGregor 1995: Allen, Lara. 2008. Kwela’s white audiences: The politics of pleasure and identification in the early apartheid period . In Composing apartheid: Music for and against apartheid., ed. Grant…